EUPHOBBIAOEJE. 331 



female solitary pedunculate, axillary to leaves or lateral to base of 

 male spikes. {Trop. West Africa and America?) 



105. Ophthalmoblapton Allem.^ — Flowers monoecious; male 

 calyx ujceolar, perforated depressed at apex. Stamen 1 , central 

 situated at bottom of calyx ; filament erect ; anthers apieulate, 2- 

 locular, longitudinally rimose. Female sepals 6, thick erect, 2 -seriate 

 imbricated, unequal ; interior dorsally subcarinate or costate. Germen 

 3-locular ; cells opposite exterior sepals ; ovule solitary ; micropyle 

 extrorse superior, obtected by small obturator ; style erect columnar 

 incrassate, concave and inwardly stigmatiferous at apex; opening 

 shortly 3-agonal, 3-labiate. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds glabrous 

 exarillate ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo wide foliaceous, digiti- 

 nerved at base. — A large tree ; juice milky acrid ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate oblong-lanceolate, penninerved veined large dentate coria- 

 ceous ; stipules (as appears) small cadupous ; buds of branches 

 terminal thick hemispherical resinous ; flowers^ in axillary subsimple 

 or ramified spikes ; inferior spikes few or 1, female rather larger; the 

 remaining superior male flowers solitary or glomerulate and spring- 

 ing from the buds of the rachis mouth-shaped from a transverse 

 aperture. {North Brasil.'^) 



106. Tetraplandra H. Bn.^ — Flowers monoecious ; male calyx 

 unequally- 3-5 -partite, imbricated. Stamen 1, 4-locular, or with 2 

 anthers inserted at summit of central column dilated and articulate 

 at base, long adnate ; cells longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 5- 

 partite imbricated. Germen 3-locular; cells 1 -ovulate; style erect, 

 afterwards 3-fid; lobes simple recurved patulate, inwardly much 

 plumose-stigmatiferous. Fruit. . . . ? — A tree ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate, 2-stipulate ; limb at base 2-glandular penninerved ; flowers 

 monoecious; male amentiform- spicate, bracts scariose, 1-flowered, at 

 fij-st cohnate falsely involucrate ; female at apex of branches solitary 

 or few sessile, surrounded by few glandular bracts. (BraszL^) 



1 Spec. 2, 3. W. JEnrni. PI. Sort. Berol. 997. ' Luteo-virescent. 



—Tubs. Fl. Ant. iv. 21.— Descottbt. Fl. Ant. '' Spec. 1. 0. macrophyllim Allem. loo. cit.— 



t. 124.— H. Bn. in Admsonia, i. 77 ; v. 344. Walp. Ann. iii. 361. 



' = In Guanalar. (dec. 1849), u. 4, c. ic; in 5 JSuphori. 549, t. 6, fig. 8-10; in Ann. So. 



Ann. So. Nat. B&. 3, xiii. 119 ; in :Sot. Zeit. Nat. ser. 4, ix. 200.— M. Arg. Prodr. 123.0. 



(1854), 457.— H. B. Euphorb. 547 ; in Adanaonia, « Spec. 1. T. Leandri H. Bn. loc. cit. ; in 



xi. 126.— M. Arg. Prodr. 1165. Admsoma,v. 344. 



